Songs of One Breath is a weekly online space with Jilani Cordelia Prescott to explore the direct, joyful experience of mysticism through practice. Each Friday she shares chants, mantra, breath practices and body prayer drawn from a range of traditions, offered as grounding, comfort, and a pathway of the heart toward deeper connection and spiritual freedom. You are warmly invited to join live on Zoom (or via Facebook Live) at 2.30pm London time, and it is free. If you enjoy the class or the podcast, and would like to support Jilani’s work, donations are welcome via PayPal.
Attention between eyebrows, let mind be before thought. Let form fill with breath essence to the top of the head, and there shower as light.
(Radiance Sutras No.8)
Rest the attention easily in the forehead,
In the eye that is made of light.
Cherish the delicate energies glowing there.
Allow intention to enquire upwards, into the
Radiant space above the head.
The small self enters delicious omnipresence.
This it remembers and knows as its truth.
Gradually the luminosity of that truth
Fills the body to overflowing
As it rises through the crown of the head
Into a shower of light.
(Radiance Sutras No.27)
Put attention into the luminous connections
Between the centres of the body,
Where the mind loves to dissolve.
Base of the spine and top of the head.
Genitals and heart.
Heart and throat.
Throat and forehead.
Forehead and crown of the skull.
Enter that glowing net of light
With a focus born of awe,
And even your bones will know enlightenment.